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Albuquerque Police have shot and killed a homeless man by the name and James
Boyd
and a few the police officers have been put on paid administrative leave
now a video helmet cam video has been released
and it's extremely graphic it shows exactly what happens but let me give you
the context of what happens in that video
it starts off with the homeless man James Boyd who was a legally camping
authorities confronted him about the fact that he was legally camp camping
and they allege that they were asking him to leave and he had become
combative with them as a result they fired the first shot
which was actually I of shot flasher flash ot
it's just a flashlight it's not an actual gun
I'm but that kinda disoriented him what you're about to see is what follows
again it starts off with the flash shot
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should fired at him several times as you can see in that video after he was
already
on the ground they shot him with beanbag rounds and you can hear the cop thing in
that video beanbag round beanbag
I and then after that I mean he's not moving his on the ground
they decide to release the canine in the canine goes after min taxon
now I should note that in the video you can see him pull out not
however there was still excessive use of force used in that
incident because you can use it aims are you can you so many
other means of getting him to drop the knives but instead they decide no you
know what we're gonna shoot him
not only with a regular God but they were gonna go forward with bean bags
were going to release the dog on him
they had absolutely no regard for his life and I went for what causes on
legally camping
he's homeless what what do you expect him to do where's the supposed to go
they can't wait to use the gunmen they just cant wait to use
there was no need for that anyway look you went on to tell you saw the video
man
what is he like some sort of knife expert who is going to drop you from
that distance
is nowhere near you 3 is one the we didn't have the video and they said oh
he pulled a knife from
maybe he was close the officer new cell can understand your your address
great but nobody thought watch that video think those cops right wrist
they have they had their guns trained on em
they there was no question that EP made any kinda mood to throw the night Billy
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him but they didn't make a move to throw the knife he was a
it's just they can't wait to put him down man and that's the police think we
look good but it went even further than that they couldn't wait to shoot him
and they shot him but that wasn't enough he's on the ground he's not moving
he's not a threat to you is not an imminent threat just add insult to
injury you shoulda with the bean bags and then you release the dog on him as
well you just stand there
what dogs attacking his man was bleeding to death or is probably
already dead now out the cops knew that he had a history of mental illness they
said that they suspected that he was a paranoid schizophrenic
I didn't stop them from behaving the way that he did or they did
and apparently had a history with violence probably because he's a
homeless man with mental illness and we decide to neglect those people that have
helped them
%uh apparently in the past he attacked people with knives box cutters and his
hands
and in 2010 he broke a female officers knows okay obviously he was an issue so
you wanna get them off the street
and you want to put him in a situation or place where he can get treatment
not just leave them on the streets and then go after him for legal camping and
then
end his life in not by a terrible way
do they still remember that he broke one of their noses and are they so pissed
that I don't know
but look we don't want the cops to get hurt
if he pulled out a knife and he was going to anywhere within
proximity of view we understand we understand you have a dangerous job
but when you have a dangerous job and we trust you with that possibility in the
authority to shoot people
and the kill them you need to exercise that authority with
for more reason and caution
and anybody looking at that video goes may just want to shoot
I want to give you guys a little more contacts on the Department of Justice is
investigating the Albuquerque Police Department
but not for this particular case they're investigating for a completely different
reason
apparently I in 2012 the
police department head shot at 25 suspects killing 17 of them
so that is a ridiculously high number in fact let's compare Albuquerque to New
York City
Albuquerque officers shot more people than the NYPD
a department serving as city 16 times larger
since 2010 as I New York cops are known for being genteel
exactly and and how if you're shooting is sixteen times are et tu NYPD in
Albuquerque
that means that hop the higher ups gave me the green light
that when you went to shoot people they said have added boss
and there was never any discipline Ford that's what leads to a culture
for shooting a guy from that distance when he doesn't appear to be a threat to
you is no big deal
new supposed to protect this man a look
that that's a guy who could potentially be dangerous when he was in that
situation
and you put him down and he's a human being
that's not what we're supposed to do to one another